Manumission started out in 1994 as a way for two bored brothers to bring some life back to Manchester. Now it's entering its ninth year in Ibiza as one of the world's biggest club names � 110,000 people passed through their nights at Privilege � and it's certainly the most notorious.

Being hailed as the "musical architect of the whole spirit of Manumission, and one of the best residents around", by people such as Seb Fontaine and Sonique, he is their long standing resident from the early days in Manchester to the huge crowds of Ibiza. Manumission this summer was a spectacular triumph with Griff playing 4-6 in the main room which proved to be a huge success. Griff manages to bring a flavour of Manumission with him wherever he plays. He also plays at many of the island's other big nights; from the terraces of Cream and Space to the harder edged back room at Lashed.

Over the years Griff has played across the UK incorporating legendary clubs such as the Hacienda and Vague as well as 051, Miss Moneypennys, Progress, Area and Passion to name but a few. He has also held residencies at Lacuna (Newcastle), the Kitchen (Dublin), the Met (Armagh) and Oephus (Belfast).

Ibiza aside, Griff plays across the globe, regularly jetting out to places such as KM (Benidorm), Family (Toledo), Barraca (Valencia) and Palladium (Barcelona) and touring throughout Germany, Bahrain, Dubai, India, Australia, New Zealand and under the shadow of the Egyptian pyramids.

In the past months he has produced a mix featured exclusively on Pete Tong's Friday night show on Radio 1 as well as broadcasting his own "postcard from Ibiza" every weekend on Galaxy FM. Recent highlights from Manumisison include a live PA with P Diddy for the launch of his "Lets get ill" track and a night long live broadcast from the club televised on Rapture TV.

Throughout his career Griff has been featured as a DJ of the month in Muzik magazine as well as scooping awards in Mixmag and still continues to please the crowds with his inimitable style and feel for a good time.

KING BRITT:
You certainly won't find an artist with a better potential to transpose the many different musical genres into a marvelous standard of grooves full of feelings. His comprehension of what we should call the phonographic culture lies much ahead than the common ones. With a work forged a mixture of Jazz, Soul, Funk, the percussive Afro beats, Hip Hop, Broken Beats, Deep House and the new Electronic Jazz fusion, King Britt has proved to be a very eclectic and open minded soul.

Original from Philadelphia, he absorbed the many styles of grooves and settled a unique vibe. His professional career had its first major ascension in 1992, times when King Britt was the DJ of the Grammy winner Hip Hop-Jazz fusion band Digable Planets (alongside Ishmael "Butterfly" Butler, Doodlebug and Ladybug Mecca). Their absolutely innovative sounds are a mixture of the contemporary side of Hip Hop with the Jazzy scats and lyrics.

His career pointed to different directions as he started to travel the World with the Digable Planets tours and with his own ones on the international House scene as Disc Jockey. At the very beginning of his journey as solo DJ, he settled a partnership with the well-known New York DJ, producer and owner of the label Ovum Recordings: Josh Wink, who also contributed for the development of his career. One of their first projects together was E-Culture, the one behind the classic "Tribal Confusion" released by Strictly Rhythm in 1990.

The seventies funk roots of this Philadelphia native are also represented through his Sylk 130 project, which brought the traditional Philly sounds elements and alliances with artists such as Ursula Rucker, Alma Horton and Alison Crockette in a combination of a funk-soul aura. The highlight of this alias was attained with the long play "When The Funk Hits The Fan", an excellent combination of the traditional grooves and more contemporary elements.

King Britt's natural talents as a remixer resulted in a total subversion of rhythms and of the original tunes conceptions, from the works of Yoko Ono and Femi Kuti to the ones of Erykah Badu and Macy Gray. Perhaps that should be the cause why he received, as well as other celebrities like Masters At Work and Joe Claussell, the invitation by the people from legendary Jazz label Verve Records to give his contribution to the acclaimed compilation "Verve Remixed". He finally owned the title on the category "Remix of the Year" with Danny Tenaglia and Basement Jaxx, which granted him the status of one of the most respected remixes all over the World.